Self-dual tensors and gravitational anomalies in 4n+2 dimensions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00626-9MaRDI QIDQ1571841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kurt Lechner

Publication date 12 July 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808025

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

Abstract: Starting from a manifestly Lorentz- and diffeomorphism-invariant classical action we perform a perturbative derivation of the gravitational anomalies for chiral bosons in 4n+2 dimensions. The manifest classical invariance is achieved using a newly developed method based on a scalar auxiliary field and two new bosonic local symmetries. The resulting anomalies coincide with the ones predicted by the index theorem. In the two-dimensional case, moreover, we perform an exact covariant computation of the effective action for a chiral boson (a scalar) which is seen to coincide with the effective action for a two-dimensional complex Weyl-fermion. All these results support the quantum reliability of the new, at the classical level manifestly invariant, method.

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